Extinguishing device for oil-stoves



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Extinguishing Device for Oil Stoves. No. 242,467. Patented June 7,1881.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EXTINGUISHING DEVICE FOR OlL-STOVES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 242,467, dated June 7, 1881,

Application filed April 11, 1881.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD MERCIER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Florence, in the county of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts, have inventednew and useful Improvements in Extinguishing Devices for Oil-Stoves, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the details of the construction of oil-stoves having extinguishers connected therewith, the object being to prevent the evaporation of oil from the wicks, and the consequent waste of oil and unpleasant odor, to keep the wicks always in proper condition for lighting, and to provide convenient means for extinguishing the flame of the burners, and for preventing the disagreeable smoke which usually escapes immediately after a lamp has been blown out.

This invention further relates to the construction of metal extinguishers adapted to be used upon oil-stoves, the object being to so make such extinguishers as to obviate all danger of injury to them from the great heat of the flame, and to produce them economically.

In the drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective of the base of an oil-stove embodying my improvements, and in which the combustion-plate is shown broken away around the wick-tubes to show the extinguishers in position. Fig. 2 is a view of one of the extinguishers detached from the stove, one end of which is shown only partially rolled; and Fig. 3 is a view of one end of a partiallyformed extinguisher.

Like letters refer to like parts in the several figures".

1n the drawings, A is the base of the oilstove. c is the combustion-plate, supported upon posts at the corners of base A, in the usual manner. at d are the wick-tubes. e e are the extinguishers. 0 is an arm on each of the extinguishers e, and w are collars on the same.

The construction of the stove parts proper (shown herein) is of the usual description; but to those are added the long extinguishers e e, hung by the sides of the wick-tubes (I, as shown. In the drawings, said extinguishers are shown as hung under the combustion-plate c and having on them the buttons 1) v, by which they are (No model.)

operated. Said extinguishers are so constructed that their cupped portion, which shuts over the end of the wick-tube, and. their slim end shafts,- upon which they turn, are made from one piece of metal, first flat, then its central portion cupped by the use of any suitable dies, and following that operation the end shafts, s, are formed by rolling the flattened end shown in Fig. 3 to a round rod form, as shown, adapting said ends to be turned easily in proper hangings which support the extinguisher upon the stove.

An arm, 0, is made upon the button end, or upon the opposite end of the extinguisher, standing at right angles to the end shaft, 8, and a collar, :20, is likewise fixed thereon, as shown. The said arm 0 serves to govern the extent of the rotary movement of the extinguisher by striking against the under side of plate a, when the extinguisher is turned over or oif from the end of the wick-tube, as shown in full and in dotted lines in Fig. 1.

The collar w, located between the bearings in which the extinguisher is hung on plate 0, serves to prevent undue longitudinal movement of said extinguisher, so that its cupped portion will always be in proper position to shut over the end of the wick-tube (Z.

The utility of having the extinguisher 6 constructed, body and end shafts, of one piece of metal is obvious, for the very considerable heat to which the extinguisher is exposed in the near proximity to the flame of the stove, where it is necessary it should be to properly perform its functions, would tend to separate any soldered parts, if the extinguisher were made with body and shafts thus united, and upon such small light work riveting would be inconvenient and too expensive.

The operation of said extinguishers will be easily understood from the foregoing description, and from the drawings.

The equipment of oil-stoves with extinguishers, as herein shown and described, obviates many of the inconveniences attendant upon the use of such stoves, such as the evaporation of the oil from the wick while the stove is not in use, and consequent disagreeable odor of the oil, the unpleasant smoky odors when the flame is blown out, and enables one to easily extinguish the flame without lowering the wicks, 2. The within described improved extinthus leaving them in proper adjustment for reguisher for oi1-stoves,havin gits central cupped lighting without further trouble. portion and its end shafts formed from a single What I claim as my invention is piece of metal, substantially as set forth. 1. The combination with the wick-tubes dd 1 p 5 of an oil-stove, of the extinguishers e e, hung EDWARD MERCIER' upon the stove and by the side of said wiek- \Vitnesses: tubes, and having the arm 0 upon one of the w H. A. OHAPIN, end shafts thereof, substantially as and for the J. D. GARFIELD.

1o purpose set forth. 

